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English

Alternative forms

• pinguin (obsolete)

Etymology

Unknown; first attested in the 16th century in reference to the auk of the Northern hemisphere; the word was later applied to the superficially similar birds of the Southern hemisphere (as was woggin). Possibly from Welsh pen (“head”) and gwyn (“white”), or from Latin pinguis (“fat”). See citations and the Wikipedia page.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???w?n/
• (pin–pen merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?p???w?n/

Noun

penguin (plural penguins)

1. Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage. [from 16th c.]
   • 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, I:

     Here are also birds cal'd Pen-gwins (white-head in Welch) like Pigmies walking upright, their finns or wings hanging very orderly downe like sleeves […]

2. (obsolete or historical) An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.
   • 1772 March, Account of the Settlement of the Malouines, in The Gentleman's and London Magazine, page 166:

     *This last species of penguin, or auk, seems to be the same with the alca cirrhata of Dr. Pallis, Spicileg. Zool. Fasc. v. p. 7. tab. i. & v. fig. 1–3. F.

   • 1885, Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York:

     More than a hundred years ago, for example, was seen the last of the great wingless penguins or auks, which early writers quaintly called " wobble-birds."

3. (slang) A nun (association through appearance, because of the often black-and-white habit).
4. (juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.
5. A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.
   • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 82,^[1]

     These productive patches, and the houses, were each surrounded by a fence, made of a prickly shrub, called the Pinguin, which propagates itself with great rapidity.

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Further reading

• Penguin in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

English

Etymology

From Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin b?falus, from Latin b?balus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?f.?l.??/
• (US) enPR: b?f'?-l?, IPA^(key): /?b?f.?.lo?/

Noun

buffalo (plural buffaloes or buffalos or buffalo)

1. Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis.
2. A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
3. A buffalo robe.
4. The buffalo fish.

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See also

• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

Verb

buffalo (third-person singular simple present buffaloes, present participle buffaloing, simple past and past participle buffaloed)

1. (transitive) To hunt buffalo.
2. (US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
3. (archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.

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See also

• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo on Wikipedia

References

• buffalo at OneLook Dictionary Search

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from English buffalo.

Pronunciation

Noun

buffalo

1. buffalo (Asian or African)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland